ORANGE ALPINE 6 FACTORY
Orange is trying to keep the bike relevant as trails get gnarlier
£5,800 / 27.5in / orangebikes.co.uk
The Orange Five and the Alpine 6 have been stablemates for as long as I can remember, the Five a 145mm-travel bike you’d be happy to pedal around all day on, and the Alpine its leggier brother with 20mm more suspension and suitably aggro geometry to match.
It’s been easy to work out which bike to ride on your home terrain then — you want the Five if you’re into trail riding, and the Alpine 6 if you spend as much time inside an uplift van as you
